Systematic studies of elliptic flow measurements in Au plus Au collisions at s(NN)=200 GeV

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2009-08-01
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Afanasiev, S.
Belikov, Sergey
Constantin, Paul
Grau, Nathan
Hill, John
Lajoie, John
Lebedev, Alexandre
Pei, H.
Rak, Jan
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We present inclusive charged hadron elliptic flow (v(2)) measured over the pseudorapidity range vertical bar eta vertical bar < 0.35 in Au+Au collisions at s(NN)=200 GeV. Results for v(2) are presented over a broad range of transverse momentum (p(T)=0.2-8.0 GeV/c) and centrality (0-60%). To study nonflow effects that are correlations other than collective flow, as well as the fluctuations of v(2), we compare two different analysis methods: (1) the event-plane method from two independent subdetectors at forward (vertical bar eta vertical bar=3.1-3.9) and beam (vertical bar eta vertical bar>6.5) pseudorapidities and (2) the two-particle cumulant method extracted using correlations between particles detected at midrapidity. The two event-plane results are consistent within systematic uncertainties over the measured p(T) and in centrality 0-40%. There is at most a 20% difference in the v(2) between the two event-plane methods in peripheral (40-60%) collisions. The comparisons between the two-particle cumulant results and the standard event-plane measurements are discussed.

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This article is published as Afanasiev, S., C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, J. Alexander, A. Al-Jamel, K. Aoki et al. "Systematic studies of elliptic flow measurements in Au+ Au collisions at s NN= 200 GeV." Physical Review C 80, no. 2 (2009): 024909. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.80.024909. Posted with permission.

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